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RA Live: Job Jobse @ GALA 2022

Resident Advisor 2022-11-11 | The storied South London festival GALA returned to Peckham Rye Park this past June for a sixth edition, featuring a standout lineup of international acts that spanned house, techno, disco and more.

There were few artists who impressed us as much as former Trouw resident and Amsterdam native Job Jobse, who delivered three hours of high energy club hits.

Listen back to his set filled with percussive trance, joyous vocal hooks, electrifying synth lines and a closer for the books, “JJ Tribute” by Asha.

Production: DOSED
Photo: Frankie Casillo

RA Live: Moxie B2B Bradley Zero @ Waterworks 2022

Resident Advisor 2022-10-07 | Waterworks Festival returned for a second triumphant edition on September 17th at West London's Gunnersbury Park.

At the Water Tower, a circular stage with a 360-degree dance floor in the centre of the festival, Bradley Zero and Moxie took the helm for a joyous two-hour back-to-back in the afternoon sunshine.

Listen back to their set, filled with bright house, percussive cuts and, our personal highlight, Janet Jackson's "Together Again."

Production Company - Kink Studios | @kinkstudios_
Director/ Producer - Sam Mulvey | @_sammulvey
DOP - Tomas Soltonas | @tomsolt
Camera - Louis Foster | @louisfoster_
Camera - Josh Flowers | @joshsflow

The foundations of VR clubbing

Resident Advisor 2022-10-04 | #Shorts

What is a club? What are the basics that make a club what it is?

Resident Advisor 2022-10-02 | #Shorts

The music, venues and creators driving virtual reality clubbing

Resident Advisor 2022-09-28 | A thriving underground nightlife scene is on the rise, but you don’t need to leave your house to be part of it. Launched in 2017, VR Chat is a completely free online social platform where users are offered an endless collection of virtual worlds. These online experiences mirror offline reality—and clubbing is no exception. In this global scene, DJs represented by avatars are pushing boundaries within the virtual electronic music world, and building venues that go beyond what could ever be achieved in real life. What is driving this burgeoning community? And how does it compare to clubbing in reality? We speak to the dedicated promoters, club founders and ravers shaping this nascent scene.

00:00 - Intro
04:42 - Evolution of music
08:10 - DJing & playing live sets in VR
10:55 - Technology required to access
12:16 - Avatars
15:56 - Attention to detail
19:14 - Limitations
20:44 - The VR ecosystem
22:37 - Harassment
24:09 - Overcoming misconceptions
25:50 - Outro

Producer - Sophie Misrahi
Writer - Sian Bradley
Editors - Kyle Jones, Sophie Misrahi
Voice Over - Keisha Forte-Hercules
Sound Mix - Guy Clarke

Featured venues:
Hei$t
Dieselworks
Concrete
Shelter
GHOSTCLUB
Loner
Rizumu
DDVR
MASS
Turbine
Sanctum
Plantasia
RageHauz
Projekt_1Q84
Afterdark Apartment
Nyx's Abyss

Extra footage:
imaginalFinn
FishcakesMY
Microsoft Sam
Squakenet
Mojopeg95
The 360
Okgold
GetEmWetShaggi

Music in order of appearance:
? - ?
Ant - Magnetic Field [Bang On] 2001
nickname x Loicc - Intruder Alert [Jupiter 4] 2022
Special Request - Pull Up (Tim Reaper Remix) [Hoversound Recordings] 2021
? - ?
Frillz - Leave Behind
Tim Reaper - Full Moon [Drum&BassArena] 2021
Alex Reece - Pulp Fiction [Metalheadz] 1995
SHLI - REVOLUTIONS [FOOTMAHI] 2022
OM3 Live
Mikey 303 Live
The Martinez Brothers - Dum (Hookerz and Blow remix) 2011
Filthy Rich - Calling All Freaks (Ed Kane's Dirtbag remix)
Cameo Blush - Clearcutter [UU001] 2021
Frillz - Dumpy Squad
LSDXOXO - Sick Bitch [XL Recordings] 2021
? - ?
0b4k3 - Unit-00
? - ?
? - ?
SAAH - Lockout [Mind Controller Rectifier] 2020
THE FORBIN PROJECT- POWDER RUN [FOOTMAHI] 2022
? - ?
Roska - Pree Me Ft Nakamura Minami (Chris Lorenzo Remix) 2021

How can we protect the future of nightlife? with Jaegermeister’s Future Forum

Resident Advisor 2022-09-01 | 6 illustrious figures from Berlin's nightlife community got together to talk about gentrification, diversity, inclusion, safety and sustainability.

Last week, a crew of Berlin-based DJs, producers and promoters sat with Jägermeister representatives for an hour to discuss the future of nightlife in Berlin and ideas and challenges for enacting process in the city's scene. The artists involved are also responsible for selecting one applicant that will be awarded €50,000 as part of the Save the Night fund, which will provide money to one special project that will inspire positive change in their nightlife scene. The fund is an extension of the brand's #SAVETHENIGHT initiative, which aims to fund creative projects to enhance nightlife around the world.

Support the Jägermeister's #SAVETHENIGHT initiative and apply at save-the-night.com/savethenightfund

Speakers:
Wolfgang Moeller - Global CMO, Mast-Jägermeister SE
Lewamm Ghebremariam - Club Commission
Sarah Farina - DJ/Producer
Asia James - Door Warden
Fallon MacWilliams - DJ/Promoter
Bernard Koomson - deadHYPE
Dimitri Hegemann - Founder of Tresor
Moderator: Eric van den Bogaard - Head of Creative, Protein Agency
Contributors:
Mast-Jägermeister SE
Tresor Berlin
Resident Advisor
Bassköster
Protein Agency
deadHYPE

RA Live: Sally C b2b Hammer on the rooftop at Depot Mayfield for The Warehouse Project

Resident Advisor 2022-08-25 | Here are 90 electric minutes from Sally C and Hammer, as they play back-to-back on the rooftop of Manchester's Depot Mayfield at sunset.

Celebrating the launch of the WHP22 season, in association with The Warehouse Project and White Claw.

Special thanks to Depot Mayfield and Pioneer.

Connecting The Dots - SHERELLE

Resident Advisor 2022-08-02 | Connecting The Dots is a new series of short films by director Daisy Gaston, which spotlights 3 leading Black, British figures in UK electronic music. In a time where the world is reckoning with the legacies of racism, these films offer a glimpse into the unique experiences of these three artists - what inspired them to get started in music? Is there still a disconnect between the black roots of electronic music and the current scene? And what does the future hold for equality in dance music? The films portray the artists outside of their usual lives on the road, offering intimacy and openness about a subject that must continue to be explored.

One of UK electronic music’s breakthrough stars of late, SHERELLE has become much more than one of the finest DJs, and more recently producers, of high-energy dance music. She has become one of the most prominent voices advocating for a more equitable dance music industry. One minute she will be setting the record straight on Twitter, the next speaking truths on national radio or television. Her label and initiative BEAUTIFUL, exists to cultivate new music and scenes within the Black and LGBTQI+ music community. As a DJ, SHERELLE is becoming world-renowned for sets of breakneck jungle, footwork and beyond, putting her own, fresh spin on the UK’s rich heritage of bass culture. In this episode of Connecting The Dots, Daisy follows SHERELLE around some of London’s key dance music spaces—Reprezent Radio, Colour Factory—hearing about the real-time legacy building that’s happening around a new icon of UK electronic music.

Director - Daisy Gaston
Cinematographer - Joyce Nicholls
Associate Producer - Sophie Misrahi
Fabric Camera Operator - Jashan Walton
Sound Mix - Guy Clarke
Graphics - Jono Canning
Edit - Joyce Nicholls
Colour Grade - Andi Chu | Black Kite Studios
16mm Scans - Kodak Film Lab

Music
| NO ONE IS OUT HERE - YEHEZKEL RAZ | DWARDE & TIM REAPER - MINI CHEDDARS |
| DEEP BLUE SEA - YEHEZKEL RAZ ft. SIVAN TALMON | SHERELLE - 160 DOWN THE A406 |
| ORA - TAMUZ DEKEL | DWARDE & TIM REAPER - RED CURTAIN |

Locations
REPREZENT RADIO
COLOUR FACTORY
FABRIC
LODESTAR COFFEE

With Thanks
| SHERELLE - SHERELLE CAMILLE THOMAS |
| SHERELLE MANAGEMENT - ONE HOUSE |
| CONTRIBUTORS - REPREZENT RADIO, NATHANAEL WILLIAMS, MO AYOUB |
| MUSIC RESEARCHER - JOSHUA BENJAMIN | RA PR - SEBASTIAN BURFORD |

Connecting The Dots - Afrodeutsche

Resident Advisor 2022-07-19 | Connecting The Dots is a new series of short films by director Daisy Gaston, which spotlights 3 leading Black, British figures in UK electronic music. In a time where the world is reckoning with the legacies of racism, these films offer a glimpse into the unique experiences of these three artists - what inspired them to get started in music? Is there still a disconnect between the black roots of electronic music and the current scene? And what does the future hold for equality in dance music? The films portray the artists outside of their usual lives on the road, offering intimacy and openness about a subject that must continue to be explored.

As long as Henrietta Smith-Rolla, AKA Afrodeutsche, can remember, there’s been music around. It’s a trusted companion, from memories of her mum’s records filling the family home and formative years spent in bands, through to her blossoming DJ career today. She made her name as Afrodeutsche with a breakthrough debut release in 2018, and since then Smith-Rolla’s star has been rising. Whether playing bass-heavy, Drexciya-inspired electro in the world’s finest clubs or getting eclectic on the radio, her musical selection honours her Black roots. The clue is in the name: Afrodeutsche is proudly Black-German. She has grown into an identity that’s inextricably linked with dance music hubs—Manchester, Germany and, less directly, Detroit. Daisy’s short film portrays how these links play out in her life and art; we are introduced to some particularly meaningful records, and invited to an intimate conversation with close friend, producer and lyricist Poppy xx.

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Director - Daisy Gaston
Cinematographer - Ben Halford
16mm Cinematographer - Joyce Nicholls
Associate Producer - Sophie Misrahi
Sound Mix - Guy Clarke
Motion Graphics - Jono Canning
Edit - Joyce Nicholls
Colour Grade - Andi Chu | Black Kite Studios
16mm Scans - Kodak Film Lab

RA Sessions: Lady Starlight

Resident Advisor 2022-07-12 | Lady Starlight is a name synonymous with heavy, modular techno. Whether performing with Surgeon or producing solo, she goes hard and fast during live, improvised recordings that are centred around power and momentum. Fusing barrelling kick drums with wiggly acid and industrial flourishes, her sets and records feel rooted in old-school rave ethos. The Lady Gaga collaborator is typically spotted alongside her Eurorack but she switched things up for her Sessions debut:

"I am using an Elektron Octatrack, Analog Rytm, Norand Mono plus two effects pedals: Eventide H9 and Strymon Blue Sky.

When I started touring again last year, I realized that I needed things to be simpler. As a live act, its easy to hide behind gear. Like somehow having more expensive and complicated equipment makes your set “better”.

Since I am often associated with modular synthesizers, I found myself falling into a gear trap. That somehow people would be disappointed if I didn’t show up with my eurorack. But this was a false narrative. I had to overcome some insecurities to start using and touring with the more compact set up I am using in this session."

Read the full interview at ra.co: ra.co/features/4041

Producer - Sophie Misrahi
Camera - Jono Canning, Sophie Misrahi, Manny Seriki, Fahad Akinsanya
Edit - Bearded Fellows
Lighting design - Dosed
Sound Technician - Steve Sheppard (Sound Services)

Connecting The Dots - Jamz Supernova

Resident Advisor 2022-07-05 | Connecting The Dots is a new series of short films by director Daisy Gaston, which spotlights 3 leading Black, British figures in UK electronic music. In a time where the world is reckoning with the legacies of racism, these films offer a glimpse into the unique experiences of these three artists - what inspired them to get started in music? Is there still a disconnect between the black roots of electronic music and the current scene? And what does the future hold for equality in dance music? The films portray the artists outside of their usual lives on the road, offering intimacy and openness about a subject that must continue to be explored.

One of the UK’s finest radio hosts and DJs, Jamz Supernova, is the subject of Daisy Gaston’s first Connecting The Dots film. Born Jamilla Walters, Jamz has given her life to broadcasting, currently holding a residency on BBC 1Xtra and Selector Radio, as well as dishing out percussive strains of UK and afro-diasporic club music from behind the decks or through her label Future Bounce. This short film touches on her ongoing artistic education and the importance of passing on the baton, so that Black women dance music fans of future generations aren’t, in Jamz’s own words, “one of one.”

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Director - Daisy Gaston
Cinematographer - Miguel Cármenes
16mm Cinematographer - Joyce Nicholls
Associate Producer - Sophie Misrahi
Sound Mix - Guy Clarke
Motion Graphics - Jono Canning
Edit - Joyce Nicholls
Colour Grade - Andi Chu | Black Kite Studios
16mm Scans - Kodak Film Lab

How PinkPantheress Found The Perfect Formula

Resident Advisor 2022-06-08 | PinkPantheress has been a prominent name in electronic music over the past year, but prior to the pandemic she was simply a university film student with little knowledge of complex music production. Utilising TikTok, the viral platform fast becoming the most powerful tool for artists, she skyrocketing herself into a string of top 40 hits, and is now touring worldwide. But how exactly did she execute such an agile rise?

This video essay examines PinkPantheress' unique formula for success and how she has gone on to influence the broader music scene.

Archive footage:
Ivors Academy / Apple Music
i-D
M.B. Videothek
BBC Sound of 2022
Spotify RADAR
MASSHENDRIX
BBC Radio 1s Live Lounge
DAZED
Pinkpantheress
BBC
Jesse Crankson
PhoenixLP 220
PunkPantheress
ChaseNRio
Crown Family Music
I AM NEXT
Michael the Kid
Fantano
StiloReacts
Lewis Vorn
Perfectbeat
rsuper96

TikTok archive:
pinkpantheress
bika_kumari
Cozycordovaa
Xxtristanxo
User263798120
Kittycatmusicvideos
.60secondsoundzz
Ewalover666
Groovypixi
Wokxo
Pleasedonotperceiveme
Rrosusss
A.ttis
Lilliana.oliver
Dobbygonewild
Vendetta.v._
Miss.sara.ann
D3str0ymyypu55yy
Jgambin0
Lmfao_sophie1
..ykmelol
Jrdnplmmr
Wheresmyhuglol
I_h3rt_fart_dog6969
Yourmomsf4vourite
user105830932

Music in order of appearance:
PinkPantheress - Just For Me
PinkPantheress - Nineteen
My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade
Pierce The Veil - King for a Day ft. Kellin Quinn
Paramore - Never Let This Go
Linkin Park - Forgotten
PinkPantheress - Last valentines
Signal Drift - And Yet…
PinkPantheress - Noticed I cried
Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers
PinkPantheress - Pain
Pink Pantheress - Passion
PinkPantheress - All My Friends Know
Example - Whisky Story
Lily Allen - Smile
Jamie T - If You Got The Money
Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes
PinkPantheress - Take Me Home
Pink Pantheress - Break It Off
Adam F - Circles
Central Cee - Obsessed With You
ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name)
Digga D - Wasted
PinkPantheress - Reason
PinkPantheress ft. WILLOW - Where You Are

Production:
Producer - Sophie Misrahi
Script Writer - David Renshaw
Script Editors - Christine Ochefu, Chloe Lula, Carlos Hawthorn
Editors - Rory Murphy, Sophie Misrahi
Motion Graphics - Jono Canning
Sound Mix - Guy Clarke
Voice Over - Christine Ochefu

Soundtracking with Freddy K & Dr. Rubinstein | RA

Resident Advisor 2022-05-17 | RA’s newest series Soundtracking is a playful look into the relationships between two DJs and their respective music collections. Switching up the conventional interview format with a focus on unusual tracks, this inaugural episode sees techno activist Freddy K engage in a lighthearted repartee with his close friend and beloved acid techno academic Dr. Rubinstein. The two puzzle over what music they’d play to alien lifeforms and the one track they’d gladly listen to for the rest of their lives. Hint: it’s not the genre you’d expect.

0:00 Intro
0:15 Q1 Best track to present to alien lifeforms as a sign of life on earth
1:51 Q2 Berghain is about to close down forever, what is the most important track for your final set?
3:50 Q3 The track people would be surprised that you own
5:33 Q4 The best track to describe the other person
7:10 Q5 The track with the most Krzrzrz
8:50 Q6 You have to erase one track from existence, including any memories, what would it be?
9:44 Q7 You can only listen to one song for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Production:
Producer, Director, Editor - Sophie Misrahi
Director of Photography - Mario Bergmann (movinapes productions - www.mario-bergmann.com)
Camera Operator - Nay Aoun
Graphics: Lucy Ross, Olesia Lipskaia
Motion Graphics: Jono Canning
Colour grade - Adam Clarke
Sound mix - Guy Clarke
Original concept - Whitney Wei

Music in order of appearance:
Ennio Morricone - Deborah's Theme (Once Upon A Time In America)
Desiderius & James Daltan - 1101
Mo-Tune - Psychowaves
Aphex Twin - Polynomial C
The Exploited - Punks Not Dea
Ofra Haza - Im Nin’alu
Freddy K - Devo Andare
Jaffa Kid - Acid Rave
Planetary Assault Systems - Voodoo
The Sculpture - The Monument
Gigi D'agostino - Bla Bla Bla
Dj Sprinkles - Sisters I Don’t Know What This World Is Coming To
Nils Frahm - Says

ANNA samples the Moog One 16-Voice Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer

Resident Advisor 2022-04-28 | Watch more videos and learn the full story behind ANNA's sampling process on Resident Advisor:
ra.co/features/3936

Get the sounds here: on.splice.com/anna-ra

Building Blocks is a series of features developed in partnership with Splice commissioning dance music artists to make a sample pack. Each artist develops a pack that reflects their voice as a producer - a suite of sounds they'd use in their own tracks and live sets. Apart from the sample pack itself, each feature includes video and text where the artists talk all things samples and sampling, the process of making the pack, and their own creative evolution from beginner to the present day. The packs will be available to purchase via Splice.

Director - Pablo Bustos
Cameras - Pablo Bustos & David Montes Aldea
Editor - David Montes Aldea
Production Director - Pablo Bustos
Color Grader - David Montes Aldea

ANNA samples Intelligels Atlantis synthesizer | RA | Splice

Resident Advisor 2022-04-27 | Watch more videos and learn the full story behind ANNA's sampling process on Resident Advisor:
ra.co/features/3936

Get the sounds here: on.splice.com/anna-ra

Building Blocks is a series of features developed in partnership with Splice commissioning dance music artists to make a sample pack. Each artist develops a pack that reflects their voice as a producer - a suite of sounds they'd use in their own tracks and live sets. Apart from the sample pack itself, each feature includes video and text where the artists talk all things samples and sampling, the process of making the pack, and their own creative evolution from beginner to the present day. The packs will be available to purchase via Splice.

Director - Pablo Bustos
Cameras - Pablo Bustos & David Montes Aldea
Editor - David Montes Aldea
Production Director - Pablo Bustos
Color Grader - David Montes Aldea

Anna samples the MKS80 with H9 peddle processing

Resident Advisor 2022-04-26 | Watch more videos and learn the full story behind ANNA's sampling process on Resident Advisor:
ra.co/features/3936

Get the sounds here: on.splice.com/anna-ra

Building Blocks is a series of features developed in partnership with Splice commissioning dance music artists to make a sample pack. Each artist develops a pack that reflects their voice as a producer - a suite of sounds they'd use in their own tracks and live sets. Apart from the sample pack itself, each feature includes video and text where the artists talk all things samples and sampling, the process of making the pack, and their own creative evolution from beginner to the present day. The packs will be available to purchase via Splice.

Director - Pablo Bustos
Cameras - Pablo Bustos & David Montes Aldea
Editor - David Montes Aldea
Production Director - Pablo Bustos
Color Grader - David Montes Aldea

ANNA makes a techno sample pack in her studio | RA | Splice

Resident Advisor 2022-04-25 | The fourth instalment in this series comes from Brazilian-born producer ANNA, who originally cut her musical teeth working as a DJ for her father's nightclub at the age of 14. Her infectious big room techno has landed on pivotal labels Novamute, Drumcode and Domino in recent years. Speaking to RA, she discusses her earliest experiences as a producer, the importance of taking advantage of any resources available to better one's craft and the ideas behind her sample pack.

Watch more videos and learn the full story behind ANNA's sampling process on Resident Advisor:
ra.co/features/3936

Try this free patch that ANNA created for Ableton Live: dropbox.com/s/qsj09rz2nyzm50z/ANNA%20-%20IF%20YOU%27RE%20STUCK%20patch.adg?dl=0

Get the sounds here: on.splice.com/anna-ra

Building Blocks is a series of features developed in partnership with Splice commissioning dance music artists to make a sample pack. Each artist develops a pack that reflects their voice as a producer - a suite of sounds they'd use in their own tracks and live sets. Apart from the sample pack itself, each feature includes video and text where the artists talk all things samples and sampling, the process of making the pack, and their own creative evolution from beginner to the present day. The packs will be available to purchase via Splice.

Director - Pablo Bustos
Cameras - Pablo Bustos & David Montes Aldea
Editor - David Montes Aldea
Production Director - Pablo Bustos
Color Grader - David Montes Aldea
Extra footage - Awakenings

RA Live Exchange: Elijah - Top tips for the music industry

Resident Advisor 2022-03-31 | This week's Resident Advisor Exchange, recorded live at AVA London with journalist Kieran Yates, forms part of Elijah's guest-edited month. Throughout March, we've run curated content published with the intention of demystifying the music industry.

00:00 - Intro
02:46 - Transparency with £££ in electronic music
06:30 - Beginnings
08:36 - Navigating excessive content
10:21 - Artists as content creators? Making social media work for you.
13:30 - Evolution of concepts and sounds - what is bass music?
15:35 - Global sounds
17:23 - Music outside of club environments
20:38 - Breaking down genre boundaries
23:04 - Rethinking the distribution of DJ fees
25:29 - Making information more accessible + transparent from the beginning
29:24 - Channeling DJ skills to other, less obvious opportunities
31:32 - Social Vs real life
34:35 - Leave an impression + be kind, who are you bringing through with you?
42:56 - Valuing people behind the scenes

Opening track: Goldlink - U Say

The Art of DJing: DJ Marky - Drum & bass beatjuggling

Resident Advisor 2022-02-10 | From Brazil to the world, Marky has changed the landscape of drum & bass with his energetic repertoire and tight blends.

What do you think are the main steps for a DJ to build a sequence?

"I like to take people on a proper journey."

And what's the journey about? Textures, tempos, places?

"The journey of a full spectrum of drum & bass. Not just hard, not just mellow. A little bit of everything to show people the full spectrum of the music. I like soulful house, but if the DJ drops some tech house in the middle of a soulful house set I like it. And if suddenly it goes to a classic house track, I go crazy! Be creative. Today, it's easy to mix with CDJs. So you need to be creative in different ways."

Track:
Adam F - Circles (Pola & Bryson Bootleg)

The Art of DJing: DJ Marky - Fingerdrumming with Phase

Resident Advisor 2022-02-09 | From Brazil to the world, Marky has changed the landscape of drum & bass with his energetic repertoire and tight blends.

Today you also play with the DJ software Phase, right? Did you migrate from vinyl to Phase or was there a step in between?

"I used to play vinyls, and the new songs I wanted to play I ordered on dubplates. But dubplates are expensive, they are fragile and you need the right studio to make them. I was spending loads of money on this, so I gave Final Scratch a try. But it was awful, it had a lot of bugs. Shortly after, Serato was released. A friend of mine showed me and I saw that I could still play with turntables. Eventually, I migrated to Serato-only.

I've been playing with Phase for like three, four years. And Phase is a really good tool. I often play at stages where the booth monitors are not well regulated, and the stage trembles with the sound. So it's impossible to play with vinyl and regular turntables since the cartridge will tremble. That's a good thing about Phase: it reads the track straight from the computer. It's a great technology, essential for festivals and touring. But I prefer to play with vinyl."

Check out the full interview here: ra.co/features/3966

Track:
Break & Kyo - Past North [Symmetry Recordings] 2019

The Art of DJing - DJ Marky: Using the stroboscopic dots and the needle to create sound

Resident Advisor 2022-02-08 | From Brazil to the world, Marky has changed the landscape of drum & bass with his energetic repertoire and tight blends.

How did you start DJing?

"I started really young. I wanted to be a drummer. My father was a musician. He used to play guitar, bass, banjo and he was old school. He used to tell me: "If you want to learn, learn it by yourself." I wanted to be a drummer since I saw the music video for "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by The Police. I always thought the fusion of reggae and rock by The Police was amazing. I've seen this also with the Brazilian group Paralamas do Sucesso. I always thought that the Paralamas' drummer, João Barone, was the Brazilian Stewart Copeland.

Anyways, soon I realized I couldn't become a drummer myself because my mother had no money and it would take me a while to make it a job and get my own money. But I had a lot of vinyl records. My friends used to ask for toys as presents, and I would ask for records. It was 1983 when a friend of mine told me, "The thing now is to be a DJ." I was like, "What's that?" And he said: "You have to overlap tracks." He had a Philips turntable, and eventually, he gave it to me."

Check out the full interview here: ra.co/features/3966

Track:
Break - Splash Step [Quarantine] 2008

Winter of Care: Alternative Tools & Strategies to Support Ourselves and Each Other

Resident Advisor 2022-01-26 | As part of Resident Advisor's month of wellness offerings, we partnered with Ecology of Care, a new, ongoing series about community care, harm reduction and mental health for people and communities who are often at the fringes of society. Their panel discussion included Pauli Cakes from the New York-based mutual aid platform and label Discakes; rafi from TS Raver a trans-led harm reduction collective; Kemoy Jemmott, a Black queer psychodyamic counsellor and sex educator; and jarral boyd, an allyship trainer, whose conversation inspired this list of resources for our wider community to better access and engage in mutual aid.

Check out the full feature for a list of resources: ra.co/features/3961

As we enter increasingly uncertain and turbulent times, we encourage RA readers and the nightlife universe at large to foreground their physical and emotional wellbeing, and to bookmark these websites for the next time you or someone you know needs help. Ecology of Care notes that this roundup is an ever-evolving work in progress, and should not be seen as definitive or complete.

Leon Vynehall: Rare, Forever - Live @ Heaven

Resident Advisor 2021-12-21 | Leon Vynehall's second album, Rare, Forever, is starkly different from the rest of his catalog. Unlike the previous concept-driven works that propelled him into the mainstream, the London artist approached his most recent record with one goal: to showcase pure, unrestrained artistic expression.

Earlier this year, Vynehall embarked on a European tour to celebrate the record's release, during which he made an appearance at London's legendary Heaven venue last month. The hour RA captured there is an odyssey through the album's abundant highlights, from the climactic IDM and trip-hop hybridization of "Ecce! Ego!," to the hard-drum leaning "Dumbo" and the sobering jazz trails of "Alichea Vella Amor."

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Producer - Jono Canning
Director - Sophie Misrahi
Editor - Jono Canning
Camera - Sophie Misrahi, Josh Renaut, Manny Seriki, Jono Canning
Artwork and Animation - Eric Timothy Carlson and Aaron Anderson

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Leon Vynehall 'Rare, Forever', out now on Ninja Tune
leonvynehall.lnk.to/rareYo_

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KiNK samples the Syncussion drum synthesiser | RA | Splice

Resident Advisor 2021-11-29 | Watch more videos and learn the full story behind KiNK's sampling process on Resident Advisor:
ra.co/features/3900

Get the sounds here: on.splice.com/Kink-RA
Use the promo code KINK to access a Sounds 100 account from Splice with 100 credits free of charge for one month.

Building Blocks is a series of features developed in partnership with Splice commissioning dance music artists to make a sample pack. Each artist develops a pack that reflects their voice as a producer—a suite of sounds they'd use in their own tracks and live sets. Apart from the sample pack itself, each feature includes video and text where the artists talk all things samples and sampling, the process of making the pack, and their own creative evolution from beginner to the present day.

Director - Peter Vulchev
Camera - Dolores Alvarado & Peter Vulchev
Editor - Nevelin Vulchev
Assistant Director - Nevelin Vulchev
Production Director - Penka Baldi
Editor - Nevelin Vulchev
Sound Post Production - Nevelin Vulchev
Color Grader - Peter Vulchev

KiNK resamples drums with the E-Mu SP1200 sampler | RA | Splice

KiNK samples the LepLoop and Arpopone synthesisers | RA | Splice

KiNK makes a house and techno sample pack in his Sofia studio | RA | Splice

Resident Advisor 2021-11-29 | The third instalment comes from the Bulgarian artist, producer and DJ, KiNK. Velchev has been one of the most reliably consistent and in-demand producers of house and techno for over a decade. Here he describes his lifelong relationship with sampling, plus the ideas and processes behind the sample pack.

Watch more videos and learn the full story behind KiNK's sampling process on Resident Advisor:
ra.co/features/3900

Get the sounds here: on.splice.com/Kink-RA
Use the promo code KINK to access a Sounds 100 account from Splice with 100 credits free of charge for one month.

Building Blocks is a series of features developed in partnership with Splice commissioning dance music artists to make a sample pack. Each artist develops a pack that reflects their voice as a producer—a suite of sounds they'd use in their own tracks and live sets. Apart from the sample pack itself, each feature includes video and text where the artists talk all things samples and sampling, the process of making the pack, and their own creative evolution from beginner to the present day.

Director - Peter Vulchev
Camera - Dolores Alvarado & Peter Vulchev
Editor - Nevelin Vulchev
Assistant Director - Nevelin Vulchev
Production Director - Penka Baldi
Editor - Nevelin Vulchev
Sound Post Production - Nevelin Vulchev
Color Grader - Peter Vulchev

Around The World In 80 Raves: Ellen Allien

Resident Advisor 2021-10-31 | This Sunday 31st October at 5 PM GMT, we're hosting the premiere of Ellen Allien's set for Around The World In 80 Raves, an initiative from charity In Place Of War.

inplaceofwar.net/donate

ABOUT 80 RAVES

inplaceofwar.net/80raves

In Autumn 2021, we're engaging members of the public and our worldwide music industry partners in a collaborative fundraising challenge - to cover the 7,200 mile / 11,600km distance across some of the 26 countries where In Place of War has projects in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Participants choose their own goal to be completed at their own pace, to contribute to the overall distance. You can choose to dance, walk, run, cycle or swim your distance goal and seek sponsorship for your efforts. There is the chance for you and your team to win amazing prizes donated by some of the event’s DJs, partners and entertainment industry networks.

Each weekend of October will be soundtracked by streamed raves by DJs from all over the world, celebrating the efforts of all the fundraisers being sponsored to complete their distances. You don't have to work in the music industry to join the Around The World in 80 Raves challenge, you just need to want to get moving to some fantastic music to play your part in making a real difference.

Through collaboration and partnership, we hope to create more than a fundraising challenge or campaign. This will be a movement of music industry and music lovers becoming activists, harnessing the uniquely universal power of music to bring us all together and make a positive change with massive impact, and we’re encouraging industry teams, friends and family to get involved.

ABOUT IN PLACE OF WAR

inplaceofwar.net/what-we-do

We enable grassroots change-makers in music, theatre and across the arts to transform a culture of violence and suffering into hope, opportunity and freedom.

How Berlin’s Day of Club Culture Is Protecting the City’s Nightlife

Resident Advisor 2021-10-28 | Tag der Deutschen Einheit, or German Unity Day, is a national holiday to commemorate the reunification of East and West Germany. In 2020, the first Tag Der Clubkultur, or Day of Club Culture, was intentionally organised for the same day; to mark the importance, diversity and unifying power of Berlin's club culture.

A joint effort between Berlin's Clubcommission, the cultural Senate and Musicboard Berlin, this year's Tag De Clubkultur saw collectives hosting events in different artistic disciplines all over the city. The day culminated with 40 clubs, venues and collectives being given grants of €10,000 each.

"This event is a really beautiful expression of using government funding and visibility, and honouring of club culture, to support what's already going on at the grassroots," says Clubcommission research fellow Diana Raiselis. "This city sees club culture as culture, as important parts of a thriving city."

In this film, Resident Advisor documented 2021's Tag De Clubkultur, speaking to those behind the scenes, and to some of the artists and creators benefitting from the government's celebration and support of Berlin nightlife.

Music in order of appearance:
Bloomfeld - Countdown Now / Phonk / Osmosis / Solid / Where Were U Rly Born

Acts in order of appearance:
Miss Immigration
Caxxianne
Selma Bodie
Legion Seven

Special thanks to:
Clubcommission Berlin
Tag der Clubkultur
Jascha Hase
Bulbul Berlin
House of Living Colors
Pornceptual
Queerberg

Producer - Whitney Wei
Assistant Producer - Sophie Misrahi
Director of Photography - Trent Grenell
Journalist - Caroline Whiteley
Editor - Kun Liang
Sound Mix - Jean-Nicolas Buonavista

Art + Sound | Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor 2021-10-19 | Subscribe to the RA YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/1wNHXzk

Whether it's kaleidoscopic patterns or geometric architecture, visuals transform our experience at clubs and festivals. Here, three London artists tell us about their technical approach to crafting textural tapestries.

Produced by Resident Advisor in partnership with Audio Technica.

Visit the full feature: ra.co/features/3890

Music in order of appearance /
Diarmo - Westarp Mornings
Mungo - PARROT BEAT
Diarmo - Westarp Mornings
Matthew Watt aka Killawatt - Hypo-Nuclear
Diarmo - They Their - Unreleased
Diarmo - Westarp Mornings

Production credits /
Directors - Sonny Jake & Sophie Misrahi
Editors - James Dean & Ollie Smith
Executive Producers - Kate Akyuz, Harriet Taylor

Louis Carnell (Visionist) - Form, The Fold, Fixed is the day We’ve cast our lot | RA Sessions

Resident Advisor 2021-09-21 | The artist formerly known as Visionist delivers a strikingly intimate performance at RA's London office.

Each record Louis Carnell released since 2011 has been bolder and more vulnerable than the last, moving steadily from club productions to a blend of abstract electronics and delicate vocals that defines his music today. His latest album, A Call To Arms, marks two debuts for Carnell: his first record on the hugely influential Mute Recordings, and his first timing singing over his own music, a fact that's hard to square with the beauty and confidence of his performances. Marking another stop in his process of self-realisation, Carnell recently chose to stop going by Visionist, the name that's been with him since his first records, and begin performing under his birth name, beginning with a track released this month, "Fixed is the day We've cast our lot." It's a move that's easy to understand as you watch his RA Session. This music is simply too personal, too intimate, to hide behind an alias.

Tracklist:
Form
The Fold
Fixed is the day We’ve cast our lot

@visionist__⁠
@samwilson323

Producers - Sophie Misrahi, Guy Clarke
Camera - Sophie Misrahi, Guy Clarke, Jono Canning
Editor - Sophie Misrahi
Sound Engineer - Flynn McBurney
Xylosynth + Electronics - Sam Wilson

RA Exchange 571: Bambounou

Resident Advisor 2021-08-12 | Check out the Origins film with Bambounou here: youtube.com/watch?v=CE7NbhzZG4I

It's deceptively easy to take for granted that Jéremy Guindo-Zegiestowski has been at the forefront of modern techno for over a decade now. This is because his productions as Bambounou arrived in remarkably mature form from 2010, and all his work since subtly developed the latent dynamism in his economical yet vivid sound.

By the time his life story thus far was chronicled in RA's ORIGINS film in 2015, he'd already released two albums and a clutch of EPs on 50Weapons, and featured in the charge of exciting Parisian music produced by the ClekClekBoom circle. Since then, he's been a fully-booked and obviously-gifted DJ, settled into the AD 93 stable and launched his own label, Bambe.

In the wake of the pandemic, Guindo-Zegiestowski had to part with his studio and apartment. Despite the drastic change in lifestyle and outlook, he's released some of his finest music yet in the past few months. In conversation with Martha, we hear how he's broadened his production horizons away from the club circuit and his continuing penchant for absorbing new information to express in musical form.

Destiny71z - Live Buchla Session | RA Sessions

Resident Advisor 2021-08-10 | Throughout 2020, Eglo Records released a series of EPs by the hitherto unknown artist Destiny71z.

Subscribe to RA's YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/1x7PeGy

Collected in the freewheeling compilation Six, the Destiny71z sound comfortably contrasts and combines lush and serrated textures in a genre-agnostic approach united by the controlled chaos of modular synthesis. It's now known to be the work of Matthew Kirkis, recognised for albums on his own MODED imprint and as a member of the Floating Points live band. This live set reveals the core of his flexible, twisting sound: a Buchla-oriented system centred on a Music Easel and Kirkis' own DIY touch plate module.

Visit the RA feature page: ra.co/features/3895

Producer - Jono Canning
Director - Sophie Misrahi
Editor - Jono Canning
Camera - Jono Canning, Sophie Misrahi, Guy Clarke, Rob Wilson
Sound Engineer - Flynn Mcburney

Why did house dancing leave the club? | Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor 2021-07-20 | Our latest film looks at a tradition as old as house music itself.

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In the early days of house music, dancers took their craft just as seriously as the DJs. What emerged became known as house dancing, a freeform style that elevates self-expression and personality as much as technique.

DJ Qu, who provided valuable insights to RA on this film, started house dancing around 1987. (He's one of a handful of dancers who went on to become successful DJs and producers, alongside the likes of Joey Anderson and Seven Davis Jr.) Attending clubs like Zanzibar and The Path in New Jersey and Kilimanjaro's, The Choice, Mars and Sound Factory in New York, he was drawn to "the way house dancers incorporated so many different dancing styles to house music, but did it in a way that was super graceful and complimented the music."

"It was a special time for music and dance," he says.

Long before the current global pandemic closed down most of the world's nightclubs, house dancing had (mostly) vanished from the club scene. In this film, we look at why that happened, and find out where house dancing ended up.

Music in order of appearance:

Willie Graff & Tuccillo -To The Music (DJ QU rmx) [Strength Music Recordings] 2018
DJ QU - Picazón [Strength Music Recordings] 2018
Black Corsairs - Thak’s Dub [Worldship] 1997
Teflon Dons - Inbetweener's Dilemma [Must Have Records] 2016
DJ QU - Liquid Beats [Strength Music Recordings] 2013
Teflon Dons - Damn Mosquitos! [My Love Is Underground] 2016
Teflon Dons - Zu Mountain (Dub) [Must Have Records] 2016
DJ QU - Step Back Up [Strength Music Recordings] 2011
Teflon Dons - Eve Of The Freak Styles [Worldship] 1996

Production credits:

Narrator: Turtle Bugg
Writer: Max Pearl
Script supervisor: Turtle Bugg
Camera: Patrick Elmore
Editors: Sophie Misrahi, Guy Clarke
Dubbing Mixer: Guy Clarke

Special thanks to DJ Qu, Caleaf Sellers & Tony Mcgregor, Krystine Walker

Extra footage:

Cutting Records
Diane Martel - House of Tres
underground dance fun
Satelliet Studio
Caleaf Sellers
Caprice87
Paul McKee
The Kennedy Centre
Carloscda40
Andres Torres
Thump
DJ SCOTTO - NASA/Shelter
Alphonso STEPZ Thomas
Summer Dance Forever
House Dance Forever
Koppi Mizrahi
MainStreamDance
Stringz313
Giova Breakill
ExNaStYx20
SAV SAV

George Riley - interest rates, a tape | RA Sessions

Resident Advisor 2021-07-07 | The London singer-songwriter dropped by our office in May to perform four tracks off her debut full-length.

Subscribe to RA's YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/1x7PeGy

George Riley is part of a new wave of London-based singer-songwriters fusing soulful vocals and vigorous lyrics with beats that shapeshift in the blink of an eye. This fluid approach to mood and tempo defines interest rates, a tape, Riley's debut full-length, which she performed in part at our London office back in May.

These four tracks—"fantasy," "hey, how are you," "poomplexed" and "money"—show an artist in love with sounds and energies over any one genre, combing R&B, soul, drum & bass and more into a fresh and captivating whole.

Visit the RA feature page: ra.co/films/3881

Producer - Jono Canning
Director - Sophie Misrahi
Editor - Jono Canning
Camera - Jono Canning, Sophie Misrahi, Guy Clarke
Colourist - Guy Clarke
Sound Engineer - Flynn Mcburney

Terre Thaemlitz: Give Up On Hopes And Dreams | Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor 2021-06-29 | Content warning: a speech in this film mentions assault and rape

In music media, context and backstory are often conflated as the storyteller attempts to organise and explain the circumstances by which an artist and their work came to be. "For me, the worst nightmare would be ending up with a film that's somehow a construction of an artistic figure that had this singularity and a growth path, if it started with photos of childhood and then talking to different people in chronological order about when they knew me," Terre Thaemlitz, the mind behind monikers like DJ Sprinkles, K-S.H.E. and G.R.R.L., tells director Patrick Nation in Give Up On Hopes And Dreams. For Nation, executing the documentary meant challenging many of his filmmaking instincts. With help from story editor Lawrence English, he had to move aside urges to shape the narrative in a linear or overly conclusive way.

View the film on RA: ra.co/films/3876

Participants
辻愛子 / Tsuji Aiko
Dont Rhine
吉田泉 / Izumi Yoshida
Laurence Rassel
Mark Fell
Terre Thaemlitz

Crew
Producer / Director - Patrick Nation
Director Of Photography - Sophie Misrahi
Camera - Sam King
Sound Operator - 高田凛 / Rin Takada
Production Coordinator - 早川みどり / Midori Hayakawa
Translator - 下山光順 / Kojun Shimoyama
Story Editor - Lawrence English
Dubbing Mixer - Guy Clarke
Graphics - Jono Canning

Discussion materials / Terre’s work
Object #22 (video) - What’s Opera Doc?
Object #08 (video) - Silvia Rivera speech
Terre Thaemlitz - Silent Passability (Ride To The Countryside), Couture Cosmetique [Comatonse Recordings] 1997
Object #14 (audio) - Canned laughter
Terre Thaemlitz - Lovebomb, Lovebomb [Mille Plateaux] 2003
Object #6 (audio) - Yamaha DX100 ‘JazzOrg’ preset
Terre Thaemlitz - Canto I: Rosary Novena for Gender Transitioning, Soulnessless [Comatonse Recordings] 2012
Object #4 (text) - Samuel Delany - Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Terre Thaemlitz - Canto III: Pink Sisters, Soulnessless [Comatonse Recordings] 2012
Object #16 (text) - Queer school regulations written by a group of teachers and students
Terre Thaemlitz - Systole.011, Interstices [Comatonse Recordings] 2001
Terre Thaemlitz - Admit It’s Killing You (And Leave): Sound/Reading For Gay Porn, Deproduction [Comatonse Recordings] 2017
Object #15 (video) - Miwa Akihiro and Mishima outing scene from “Kuro Tokage (Black Lizard)”

Coming Soon - Terre Thaemlitz: Give Up On Hopes And Dreams | Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor 2021-06-25 | Premiering on 29th June, Resident Advisor's latest film, a rare insight into the work and world of Terre Thaemlitz.

Thaemlitz, the mind behind monikers like DJ Sprinkles, K-S.H.E. and G.R.R.L, brought together five friends and collaborators at the Shizu Community Centre near her home in Chiba, Japan. During three days of filming, which took place in 2018, Thaemlitz let RA into her creative and academic headspace.

"For me, the worst nightmare would be ending up with a film that's somehow a construction of an artistic figure that had this singularity and a growth path," Thaemlitz says. "That would be the wrong way to go about attempting to document my work."

RA Live Exchange: KG - Bask in your uniqueness

Resident Advisor 2021-06-17 | Following a six-year hiatus from the music industry, Karen "KG" Nyame-Gyamfi is reintroducing herself to a new generation and reconnecting with her old audience. She's hit the ground running in the few years since her comeback, working with the likes of UNiiQU3, Scratcha DVA and Dance System, and releasing a solo EP on Goon Club Allstars. Having started music production from the tender age of eight, she has transformed from a respected beatmaker of the UK Funky era to fully-fledged producer, working with Aymos, Toya Delazy, Taliwhoah and Mista Silva on her recent Sensei II for Black Acre.

Her return has come in the wake of harder years where the inequities of the industry had turned her artistic gift into a burden. In conversation with Vanessa Maria, we hear how KG restored her love of music, the story behind her forthcoming debut album and the journey to trusting her unique creative identity.

Loraine James - Black Ting (Ft Le3 bLACK) / Running Like That (Ft Eden Samara) | RA Sessions

Resident Advisor 2021-06-10 | Loraine James stops by the office for a live performance of tracks from her new album, Reflection.

Loraine James' 2019 debut on Hyperdub, For You & I, established her as an anomalous voice in the next generation of UK dance music. James' experiments with club music are fiery, jumping between intimate melodies, booming basslines and moments of glitch. Unable to tour and ride the wave of success following For You & I, lockdown proved to be a productive creative incubator for James, who used the time to write her third full-length, Reflection.

For her RA Session, she chose to play a couple of the album's more chilled-out tracks, "Black Ting ( Ft Le3 bLACK)" and "Running Like That (Ft Eden Samara)." Armed with a midi keyboard, controller and her trusty laptop, this was one of the first times James played these songs live. "I practised just a couple of times before," she said, "I like to be a little underprepared so I make room to try new stuff out." The resulting 16 minutes are exemplary of James' knack for manipulating vocal recordings as whimsical electronics interplay with bLACK's nimble lyricism and Samara's saccharine voice.

Producer - Jono Canning
Camera - Jono Canning, Sophie Misrahi, Guy Clarke, Rob Wilson
Sound Engineer - Flynn Mcburney

ORIGINS Food Fund Stream: Peach

Resident Advisor 2021-05-14 | Listen back to the sets from last Friday's FareShare fundraiser. We'll be uploading them throughout the week.

Last Friday, in collaboration with UK promoter ORIGINS, we streamed excellent sets from Shanti Celeste, Saoirse, Peach and Armând, whose tunes were brought to life by a crack team of editors, set designers and visual artists. In case you missed it, we'll be uploading the sets one by one throughout the week.

Friday's event was a fundraiser for food waste charity FareShare. Watch this video to see the great work they do: youtube.com/watch?v=e3mU5BZkE4k

Donate here: gofund.me/f64cae27

Credit List:
Project by Origins Sound [@originssound]
Creative director: Jocelyn Anquetil [@jocelyn_anquetil]
Graphic designer: Victoria Louise Boyle [@vicboyle]
Video editor: Jerry Dobson [@___jerrydobson]
Photography: Rob Jobes [@hirobjones]
Set Designer: Ellie Koslowsky [@elliekoslowsky]
Supported by: Resident Advisor [@resident_advisor]
Produced by: Ten Studios [@ten_studios_london]
Visuals: Tabitha Swanson [@tabithaswanson_]
Assisting: Alice Davies [@aliced_94]

ORIGINS: Food Fund Shanti Celeste

Resident Advisor 2021-05-13 | Listen back to the sets from last Friday's FareShare fundraiser. We'll be uploading them throughout the week.

Last Friday, in collaboration with UK promoter ORIGINS, we streamed excellent sets from Shanti Celeste, Saoirse, Peach and Armând, whose tunes were brought to life by a crack team of editors, set designers and visual artists. In case you missed it, we'll be uploading the sets one by one throughout the week.Listen back to the sets from last Friday's FareShare fundraiser. We'll be uploading them throughout the week.

Last Friday, in collaboration with UK promoter ORIGINS, we streamed excellent sets from Shanti Celeste, Saoirse, Peach and Armând, whose tunes were brought to life by a crack team of editors, set designers and visual artists. In case you missed it, we'll be uploading the sets one by one throughout the week.

Friday's event was a fundraiser for food waste charity FareShare. Watch this video to see the great work they do: youtube.com/watch?v=e3mU5BZkE4k

Donate here: gofund.me/f64cae27

Credit List:
Project by Origins Sound [@originssound]
Creative director: Jocelyn Anquetil [@jocelyn_anquetil]
Graphic designer: Victoria Louise Boyle [@vicboyle]
Video editor: Jerry Dobson [@___jerrydobson]
Photography: Rob Jobes [@hirobjones]
Set Designer: Ellie Koslowsky [@elliekoslowsky]
Supported by: Resident Advisor [@resident_advisor]
Produced by: Ten Studios [@ten_studios_london]
Visuals: Tabitha Swanson [@tabithaswanson_]
Assisting: Alice Davies [@aliced_94]

Friday's event was a fundraiser for food waste charity FareShare. Watch this video to see the great work they do: youtube.com/watch?v=e3mU5BZkE4k

Donate here: gofund.me/f64cae27

Credit List:
Project by Origins Sound [@originssound]
Creative director: Jocelyn Anquetil [@jocelyn_anquetil]
Graphic designer: Victoria Louise Boyle [@vicboyle]
Video editor: Jerry Dobson [@___jerrydobson]
Photography: Rob Jobes [@hirobjones]
Set Designer: Ellie Koslowsky [@elliekoslowsky]
Supported by: Resident Advisor [@resident_advisor]
Produced by: Ten Studios [@ten_studios_london]
Visuals: Tabitha Swanson [@tabithaswanson_]
Assisting: Alice Davies [@aliced_94]

ORIGINS Food Fund Stream: Saoirse

Resident Advisor 2021-05-12 | Listen back to the sets from last Friday's FareShare fundraiser. We'll be uploading them throughout the week.

Last Friday, in collaboration with UK promoter ORIGINS, we streamed excellent sets from Shanti Celeste, Saoirse, Peach and Armând, whose tunes were brought to life by a crack team of editors, set designers and visual artists. In case you missed it, we'll be uploading the sets one by one throughout the week.

Friday's event was a fundraiser for food waste charity FareShare. Watch this video to see the great work they do: youtube.com/watch?v=e3mU5BZkE4k

Donate here: gofund.me/f64cae27

Credit List:
Project by Origins Sound [@originssound]
Creative director: Jocelyn Anquetil [@jocelyn_anquetil]
Graphic designer: Victoria Louise Boyle [@vicboyle]
Video editor: Jerry Dobson [@___jerrydobson]
Photography: Rob Jobes [@hirobjones]
Set Designer: Ellie Koslowsky [@elliekoslowsky]
Supported by: Resident Advisor [@resident_advisor]
Produced by: Ten Studios [@ten_studios_london]
Visuals: Tabitha Swanson [@tabithaswanson_]
Assisting: Alice Davies [@aliced_94]

ORIGINS Food Fund Stream: Armând

Resident Advisor 2021-05-10 | Listen back to the sets from last Friday's FareShare fundraiser. We'll be uploading them throughout the week.

Last Friday, in collaboration with UK promoter ORIGINS, we streamed excellent sets from Shanti Celeste, Saoirse, Peach and Armând, whose tunes were brought to life by a crack team of editors, set designers and visual artists. In case you missed it, we'll be uploading the sets one by one throughout the week.

First up, ORIGINS founder Ali Mehrkar, AKA Armând.

Friday's event was a fundraiser for food waste charity FareShare. Watch this video to see the great work they do: youtube.com/watch?v=e3mU5BZkE4k

Donate here: gofund.me/f64cae27

Credit List:
Project by Origins Sound [@originssound]
Creative director: Jocelyn Anquetil [@jocelyn_anquetil]
Graphic designer: Victoria Louise Boyle [@vicboyle]
Video editor: Jerry Dobson [@___jerrydobson]
Photography: Rob Jobes [@hirobjones]
Set Designer: Ellie Koslowsky [@elliekoslowsky]
Supported by: Resident Advisor [@resident_advisor]
Produced by: Ten Studios [@ten_studios_london]
Visuals: Tabitha Swanson [@tabithaswanson_]
Assisting: Alice Davies [@aliced_94]

The Art Of DJing: Colin Dale - Solid-state drive

Resident Advisor 2021-05-06 | After one too many USBs failed on him, Colin Dale swears by the SSD card.

Check out the full feature here: ra.co/features/3860

Richard Akingbehin traces 40 years behind the decks and on the airwaves with a pillar of UK dance music.

There's a whole generation of electronic music fans who cite Colin Dale as the reason they got into clubbing. As a broadcaster and a fierce club DJ, he spun hard-edged sets on three turntables with an MC hyping up the place. A lifelong champion of the underground, Dale's early contributions to house, techno and experimental music were as significant as those of any UK artist.

The Art Of DJing: Colin Dale - Using the effects on Pioneers RMX-1000

Resident Advisor 2021-05-06 | Colin Dale shows how he uses the Pioneer effects unit to add dynamics to his blends.

Check out the full feature here: ra.co/features/3860

Track: Mehari - Fame (Luciano Instrumental Remix)

Richard Akingbehin traces 40 years behind the decks and on the airwaves with a pillar of UK dance music.

There's a whole generation of electronic music fans who cite Colin Dale as the reason they got into clubbing. As a broadcaster and a fierce club DJ, he spun hard-edged sets on three turntables with an MC hyping up the place. A lifelong champion of the underground, Dale's early contributions to house, techno and experimental music were as significant as those of any UK artist.

Jon Hopkins with Leo Abrahams - Heron (Extended) | RA Sessions

Resident Advisor 2021-05-05 | Our intimate film series returns with a performance by two artists who have been playing together since they were 15.

For obvious reasons, RA Sessions, our long-running film series of intimate live performances, was put on hold in February 2020. The hiatus is now over. Last month, Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams, two British musicians who have been playing together since they were teenagers, stopped by our London office to perform "Heron," a cover of a James Yorkston song that Hopkins first wrote around ten years ago. He has since revisited the track for a new EP, Piano Versions.

With Hopkins on piano and Abrahams on electric guitar, "Heron (Extended)" is a longer, improvised version of the original cover. Hopkins says him and Abrahams share a "musical telepathy," which you can hear in the way the haunting notes mingle and soar. The stillness and gentle pace feels befitting of the times.

Producer - Sophie Misrahi, Guy Clarke
Director - Sophie Misrahi, Guy Clarke
Camera - Sophie Misrahi, Guy Clarke, Jono Canning
Editor - Sophie Misrahi
Sound Engineer - Flynn McBurney
Graphics - Jono Canning

What Happened To Tech House? | Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor 2021-04-06 | The story behind the most misunderstood genre in dance music.

For well over a decade, tech house was commonly assumed to be a byword for uninspired, cookie-cutter dance music. Combining techno's outer-space sensibility with the swung grooves of house, tech house became largely associated with big room commercial clubs, and the term was often casually used as a pejorative to describe any mid-tempo dance music thought to be in bad taste. But in recent years, that's started to change.

A new generation of DJs have been rediscovering the '90s productions that initially defined the tech house sound, tracks that are a million miles away from what the style transformed into as the 2000s progressed. Many modern listeners wouldn't think to associate these timeless tracks with what tech house became, which begs the question: what happened? What was tech house in the first place? Where did it come from? Why did it change? And why is it back? In this video essay, the DJs and producers who built the culture, watched it decay and reemerge, set the record straight.

Narrator: Moxie
Writer: Ray Philp
Editor: Sophie Misrahi
Dubbing Mixer: Guy Clarke
Motion Graphics: Lawrie Miller
Music Consultant: Dave Mothersole

Archive Footage/Images:

Dafina Krstevska Richards / dy-na-mix
One2 Watch Media
Kappa FuturFestival
Mark Anthony Tarling
Mile Staniskovski
Lucianocadenza
Twistedbobby
Boing Poum Tchak!
DJ Mag
Nicole Moudaber
Miami Music Week
Conkermon
Joe Dawson
Bruw69
Maria Harlow
Mickysheffield
Tomorrowland
Get Physical Music
Auroom Record Label
Sunwaves Festival
PIRATE.COM
Boiler Room

Music in order of appearance:

O.H.M. - Oceanic (Original Mix) [Defective Records] 1995
Housey Doingz - Gobstopper [Wiggle Classics] 1996
E-Dancer - World of Deep [Play It Again Sam] 1998
Pure Science - Say It [Pure Science Communications] 1999
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray [Warlock Records] 1988
LFO - LFO [Warp Records] 1990
Baby D - Let me be your Fantasy [Production House] 1992
Leviticus - Burial [Philly Blunt Records] 1994
Goldie - Innercity Life [FFRR] 1994
Loco Dice - Definition (Nic Fanciulli Remix) 2010
M.A.N.D.Y. vs Booka Shade - Body Language [Get Physical Music] 2005
Two Right Wrongans - System Error (Original Mix) [Neotropiq] 2018
Asad Rizvi - Dual (Bushwacka! Remix) [Reverberations] 2005

Honey Dijon, Kerri Chandler and DJ Nobu soundtrack a 360 virtual Tokyo with spatial audio

Resident Advisor 2021-03-31 | Resident Advisor, Asahi Super Dry and Club Qu present Discover Tokyo.

Travel on a journey through Tokyo; via a neon-lit city street to a digital art gallery, finishing at a nightclub. Each space will be soundtracked with original music composed by world-class artists: DJ Nobu, Honey Dijon and Kerri Chandler, mixed using Spatial Audio; surround sound you can hear through any set of headphones.

Discover Tokyo was created to celebrate modern Tokyo, a culture with a thriving art and music scene - and the home of Asahi Super Dry. A Japanese lager with a unique Karakuchi Taste - dry, crisp with a quick clean finish.

DJ Nobu soundtracks Downtown Tokyo
Honey Dijon soundtracks the Digital art Gallery
Kerri Chandler soundtracks the Nightclub

Read more here: ra.co/features/3839

Concept, Experience Design, Curation & Delivery - Club Qu (@clubqu) in collaboration with Resident Advisor (@resident_advisor) and Asahi Super Dry (@asahisuperdry)
Director / Environment Design - IOR50 studio (@ior50.studio)
Environment Design - Anastasiia Holumbovska (@golumbovska)
Unreal Developer - Clifford Sage (@cliffordsage)
Assets Design - Luka Lavrenci (@uno.tisto) - IOR50 Studio
Graphic Design and 3D - Bruno Boiça (@bruns.digital) - IOR50 Studio
Architect and 3D design - Nathaniel Nutt (@cgi_thug) - IOR50 Studio
Exhibition / Sculptures design - Giusy Amoroso (@marigoldff) , Aaron Jablonski (@exitsimulation), Luka Lavrenci (@uno.tisto) - IOR50 Studio
Web Design - Rachel de la torre (@lamb_k305)
Mixing & Mastering - Recsund (@cliffordsage)
Off World Live
Using a new interactive, 2D and 360 live-streaming system for games engines by Off World Live (@offworldlive)

Collaborate with Club Qu
Get in touch: rm@clubqu.com

VOID - One Year Of Silence | Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor 2021-03-23 | VOID is an audiovisual experience best enjoyed in full, with the lights down and the volume up.

Read the full feature on RA: ra.co/films/3845

A year ago to the day, the UK entered its first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic. 66 million people were ordered to stay at home as all but essential businesses shut. Nightclubs, once abuzz with life and dancing, were left empty. Clubbers, many of whom relied on these spaces as sanctuaries away from the stresses of everyday life, suddenly had nowhere to go. Some of these venues will never reopen. Others, the lucky ones, still have at least three months to wait until ravers can return.

A handful of the lucky ones appear in VOID - One Year Of Silence, a short film by British filmmakers Tom Andrew and Benjamin Nash. For the audiovisual piece, Andrews and Nash visited clubs across England, filming their empty dance floors and photographing their managers or owners. Shots of cavernous clubs and warehouses coalesce with original music by Daniel Avery. The aim of the project, as well as reflecting on a year without clubbing and human connection, is to raise money and awareness for CALM, a charity leading the movement against suicide in the UK.

Donate here: justgiving.com/fundraising/voidfilm

Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is leading a movement against suicide in the UK, offering life-saving services, provoking national conversation and bringing people together to empower everyone to reject living miserably and stand together against suicide.

Right now CALM is needed more than ever. Since lockdown their helpline answered more than 124,000 calls and web chats. That's one every 56 seconds.

If you're struggling, talk to CALM on 0800 58 58 58 or via their web chat. Their trained helpline staff are available from 5 PM through midnight every day to provide practical support and advice. It's free, anonymous and confidential, no matter who you are or what you're going through.

Director - Tom Andrew
Director - Sam Davis
DOP - Yannick Hausler
Executive Producer - Benjamin Nash
Production Company - Bangerz&Nash
Dancer - Hanna Ekholm
Dancer - Francesco Migliaccio
Music - Daniel Avery
Audio mixing & additional music production - Manni Dee
3D Artist - Greedy Goons
Editor - Ben Elkaim
Colourist - Myles Bevan
Designer - Seethrough Studio

Special Thanks:

CALM
Resident Advisor
Insight Lighting
Pixi Pixel
Michael Regan
ACS Studio
Adrian Jones
Ashley Keeler

Clubs & Venues:

The Arch (Brighton)
The Brickworks (Nottingham)
The Cause (London)
Corsica Studios (London)
Cosmic Ballroom (Newcastle)
Hare & Hounds (Birmingham)
Hidden (Manchester)
Hope Works (Sheffield)
Lab11 (Birmingham)
Lakota (Bristol)
Mama Roux (Birmingham)
Fewer Than 1 (Sheffield)
Oval Space (London)
Strange Brew (Bristol)
Thekla (Bristol)

Taking Time: Mr. Mitch | Resident Advisor

Resident Advisor 2021-03-10 | In the second edition of Taking Time, London artist Mr. Mitch jams with his kids at home.

As nightclubs and festivals shut down last year amid the pandemic, many artists retreated into their studios to make music. This led to a flood of releases on Bandcamp and other retailers, and buying music became the easiest and most direct way to support artists whose gigs had dried up.

But how did the events of last year impact the way artists approach their craft? In this film series, we capture intimate at-home performances of tracks produced during lockdown. We explore how the events of past year impacted the music that was made, unpacking the emotions that fuelled the creative process.

We visited the Gobstopper Records boss in the run-up to the release of his new album, Lazy. Mr Mitch explained how being locked down at home has pushed him to involve his two children in his music-making, and how they inspire his creative process in unexpected ways.

Director / Camera / Editor - Sophie Misrahi
Camera / Graphics - Jono Canning
Sound / Colour - Guy Clarke